Bill-file



IlNrrn 'rares EDWARD P. DONNELL, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

BILL-FILE.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 226,163, dated April 6,1880. Application lerl February 20, 1880.

To all 'whom it muy concern:

Be it known that l, EDWARD P. DoNNELL, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county,Ohio, have invented a new and useful Paper-File, of which the followingis aspecication.

My invention relates to an improved form of those instruments forholding bills, letters, invoices, and similar documents which areprovided with one or more loops of wire, made capable of separation at aconvenient part of their length for the insertion or removal of anypaper at will.

In my improvement one or more such loops or wires rise in arch form froma base or tablet, and one shaft of such arch has a sliding joint orsection, whereby the continuity of the loop may be temporarily brokenfor insertion or removal of a paper.

A smaller arch, located in the same plane and concentrically within thefirst, is likewise er cted upon the tablet to hold a set of indexstrips,of which there may be one for each of a series of index characters, suchas letters of the alphabet, singly or in groups.

In the accompanying' drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of apaper-file embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is an axial section of theshorter component wire or shaft with its sliding section. Fig. 3 showsone of the index-tags detached.

A may represent a wooden or a metallic slat, which serves as the base ortablet to which the operative members of my file are attached.

Rising vertically from slat A are one or more pairs of wires, B C, ofwhich one Wire, B, of each pair is arched semicircularly and terminatesin a socket, b, to receive a sliding section, D, contained in the shaftor wire C, which is made tubular for that purpose.

The sliding section D is pointed at top and connects by pin E, which,extending through a slot, c, in tube C, is fastened to a sleeve, F, bymeans of which the sliding section D ma i be protruded or retracted.

A notch, c', in edge of slot c enables the section D to be held to itsprotrnded position by a partial rotation of its sleeve. Each of suchrepresented, may, if preferred,

wire arches is accompanied by a smaller arch or loop, G, locatedconcentrically within it, to

.hold a series of index tags or strips, H, having eyelets h to receivethe wires of said arch C and notches 7L', and inscribed at their eX-tremities with letters or other characters similar to the index-leavesof a ledger. One tag or more may be appropriated to each character, oreach tag may contain two or more characters, according to thenecessities of the case.

An additional distinction between theneighboring tags in the series maybe obtained by colors. Thus A may be a red, B a white, C a blue, D ared, tag, and so on through the alphabet. The 'tags may also be markedon their rear sides, if desired.

The loops may be fastened directly to the base but I prefer to rivettheir lower extremities to a plate, I, suitably perforated forwoodscrews J, by which it is secured to the base.

I have described and prefer for most purposes a file consisting of twosuch loops or arches 5 but the principle is manifestly applicable to aiile consisting of a single loop.

The loops, while preferably of the arch form be curved throughout theirlengths.

I claim as new and of my invention- 1. The combination of the wires B Cand the sliding section D, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

2. In a paper-file, one or more arched wire loops in which the shaft Cis tubular and contains a sliding section, D, connected by pin E withsleeve F, said pin occupying a notched slot, c c', as and for thepurposes set forth.

3. In a paper-tile, the combination, with a separable wire loop, B C D,of the interior loop, G, for a series of index-tags, H, substantially asset forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

EDWARD I). DONN ELL.

